68...PE0RIA Williamson county, 111., February 17, 1862 ; moved where he has since resided ; to Murphysboro was educated here in the public schools and at the Christian Brothers College, St. Louis, and at the Normal School at Carbondale, graduating- from here in June, 1884, After completing a law course at the Michigan Universit3% began an edi- torial career in connection with the Murphysboro Independent. Mr. Gill was elected to the House <strong>of</strong> Representatives in 1888 and 1890, and in 1892 was nominated and elected Lieutenant Governor <strong>of</strong> the State. Mr. Gill has at all times in his life been the champion <strong>of</strong> the laboring masses and his eflforts in their behalf have won for him the love, honor and esteem <strong>of</strong> all thinking men and women. GOVERNOR JOHN P. ALTGELD No. 29. John P. Altgeld, Governor <strong>of</strong> Illinois, was born in Germany ia December, 1847. When he was three months old his parents settled near Mansfield, Ohio, where he was reared upon a farm. He was early trained to hard work and attended the public schools at intervals during the winter. When sixteen years <strong>of</strong> age he entered the Union army and carried a musket in the James River campaign, and at nineteen began to teach school. At twenty-one he went further west. The spring <strong>of</strong> 1869 found him working in St. Louis and studying law at night. After spending a few months there he went into Southern Kansas. In the fall <strong>of</strong> 1869 he settled at Savannah,. in Northwestern Missouri, and began reading law with Judge William Herron and the Hon. David Ray, teaching school in the winter. He was admitted to the bar there and served as City Attorney. He drafted a new code <strong>of</strong> ordinances for the city, but before the expiration <strong>of</strong> two years resigned the <strong>of</strong>fice to attend to private practice. Ia 1874 he was elected State's Attornej^ for Andrew County, Missouri. Having served about one year he resigned and moved to Chicago. After having gained a start, business came very rapidly and he was soon employed in some <strong>of</strong> the most difficult cases. In the fall <strong>of</strong> 1877 he was married to Miss Emma Ford, a woman <strong>of</strong> beauty, culture and refinement, who is now his constant cojnpanion. She was the daughter <strong>of</strong> John H. Ford, k prosperous farmer living near Mansfield, Ohio. For some years he eschewed politics, but in 1884 he ran for Congress in Chicago. Although he was defeated he made so vigorous and thorough a campaign that it attracted the attention <strong>of</strong> the politicians throughout the State. He was elected Judge <strong>of</strong> the Superior Court <strong>of</strong> Chicago in 1886 and was for a time Chief Justice <strong>of</strong> that Court. After serving on the bench about five years, he resigned to devote himself to private interests. In 1884 he published a small volume entitled " Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims," which is regarded as one <strong>of</strong> the best works ever published on the subject <strong>of</strong> our penal system. In 1890 a volume entitled " Live (Questions " appeared from his pen, being a discussion <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the problems <strong>of</strong> the day. In 1894 he published Volume II. <strong>of</strong> " Live Questions." He was nominated for Governor <strong>of</strong> Illinois on the Democratic ticket in the spring <strong>of</strong> 1892, and was elected by upwards <strong>of</strong> 25,000 majority.
William M. Allen. Mayor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peoria</strong>.
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